FE Volume 141 Issue 8

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Volunteer Recruiting: A Success Story

Many departments engage in active recruiting of volunteer or on-call firefighters just to maintain their current service levels. In many cases, run volume is increasing, responsibilities are expanding, and more stringent requirements for training are being placed upon the department members.
Fire Service CareerFirefighter Training

Recruiting and Manning

When one of the oldest rescue companies in New York City was being formed, the department had to recruit for volunteers for assignment. Requirements included that those applying have some experience in a trade and, most importantly, be capable of passing a rigid, special examination.
Fire Service CareerFirefighter Training
Tower Ladders

Tower Ladders

The tower ladder (ladder tower, aerial scope, platform, or whatever you may call it) is the most aggressive and versatile piece of fire equipment since the advent of mechanized fire apparatus. It should be set up, as should all aerial devices, for offensive fire operations at all occupied structure fires.
Aerial ApparatusFire Apparatus
Collecting and Handling Evidence at the Fire Scene: An Overview

Collecting and Handling Evidence at the Fire Scene: An Overview

The knock-out sounds at 0300 hours, sending your truck company, two engine companies, and a district battalion chief screaming to a vacant building fire. As you roll out of bed and slide down the pole, you know what you're going to find when you arrive—another arson fire in an old, abandoned building, just like the others you've been fighting over the last several weeks in the same general area of town.
Building ConstructionFire Safety

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USFA to study fire safety and the hearing impaired

USFA to study fire safety and the hearing impaired

Upon request from Congress, the United States Fire Administration will issue a report on fire safety and the hearing impaired. The USFA has been asked to identify fire safety equipment for the hearing impaired and the efforts to improve it; the equipment's availability in homes, apartments, hotels, and government buildings; and the extent to which it's required by model codes and states.
Fire Safety
AIDS clause negotiated into firefighters’ contract

AIDS clause negotiated into firefighters’ contract

Firefighters in Warrensville Heights, Ohio will receive financial assistance from the city should they contract acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Under provisions of a two-year union contract, the city will pay the difference between a firefighter's state disability pension and his or her annual salary until death or retirement age is reached.
Fire Department LeadershipFirefighting

Horizontal Venting

We discussed, in past columns, that vertical venting of private dwellings is important for two reasons. First, it limits the spread of the fire; second, because of that fact, it buys time for trapped occupants —time for us to find them.
Fire Department LeadershipFirefighting

Truss Construction Claims More Lives

On Friday afternoon, July 1, all of America's working force was looking forward to a three-day holiday, a weekend filled with laughter, picnics, friends, and relations. The employees of a car dealership in Hackensack, N.J. were finishing up their daily workload in hope of an early release. It was then they noticed smoke drifting down from a ceiling space used to store auto parts and related stock.
Fire Department LeadershipFirefighting
Fire safety papers sought for conference

Fire safety papers sought for conference

Technical papers advancing the cause of fire safety are being sought for presentation at the National Fire Protection Association's next annual meeting. The association is particularly interested in papers addressing the meeting's theme, "The Public/Private Sector Fire Problem Interface," and in such topics as technological breakthroughs, code administration and enforcement, and cost-benefit analysis of code enforcement.
Fire Safety
NFPA has reservations on sprinkler bill

NFPA has reservations on sprinkler bill

Part of the legislation that would require hotels and motels to install adequate smoke detectors and an automatic sprinkler system doesn't sit well with the National Fire Protection Association. It's not the concept that's the problem, Joseph Redden, the association's assistant vice-president for external affairs, is quick to say.
Fire SafetyFire Suppression Systems

BLEVE: The Propane Cylinder

Two engine companies and two ladder companies respond to a report of a truck fire at a residential/business community. The officer of the first pumper on the scene sees smoke issuing from a large, enclosed lunch-wagon van.
Fire Department LeadershipFirefighting
How the Fire Services Caucus Measures Up: An Analysis

How the Fire Services Caucus Measures Up: An Analysis

Member-to-member lobbying—the informal process by which members of Congress reach agreement on what to regulate, how to spend, and where to get money—influences the passage of federal law more than anything else. Most Congressional member-to-member contact is just that: brief personal conversations. However, for some causes and on some occasions, members of Congress form caucuses and agree to work together on a regular basis.
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The Management of Change

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MANUFACTURERS’ LITERATURE

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Chemical Data Notebook Series #27 Potassium Nitrate

HazmatTechnical Rescue

HIGH-RISE: An Analysis

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HIGH RISE: Be Ready to Fight the Battle

Fire PreventionFire Safety

TRAINING AIDS

Fire PPEFirefighting Equipment

IAFC Convention Exhibitors List

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COMING EVENTS

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NAMES IN THE NEWS

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Waking the Sleeping Giant

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EQUIPMENT DIGEST

Firefighting Equipment

Joint Purchasing Group

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